The wine for Pebble Beach Food & Wine is arriving and Wednesday the team let us into one of the wine cellars to check out the stockpile.

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Wine is a very important half of Pebble Beach Food & Wine and the cellar at The Inn at Spanish Bay as about 200 cases of rare wines and vintages, and it is one of two cellars, plus several loaded trucks.

"We have three refrigerated trucks onsite at the Grand Tasting Tent, one for each day, that is full for each day, and I think eight or 10 pallets on each truck, and then another truck for opening night," said the festival's wine director Lara Sailer Long.

All of the storage spaces are climate controlled and under lock and key.

Sailer Long said she has one of two keys to the cellar at the Inn at Spanish Bay and doesn't want the public to know the dollar amount being stored there. She works year round, and sometimes up to three years in advance of an event to pick the wines stocked on the festival's cellar shelves.

“Yes, for the higher-end seminars, the imperial level, in order to really access the depths of the cellars, and making sure a winemaker is available, sometimes that is two or three years in advance, especially working with the Europeans," she explained.

Sailer Long said every year there is something new and exciting at PBFW but an old friend is always her favorite pick.

"I am a Champagne freak, so we'll have lots of Champagne seminars," she said.

All in all there are six Champagne exclusive events over four days, including one called Big Bottle Bubbles.

"Literally big bottle bubbles, we are doing 10 Champagnes all in magnums," Sailer Long said.

With bubbly size does matter when it comes to the bottle and some think the wine ages better in 1.5 liter magnums. Figuring out whether it ages better will be a part of the discussion Sunday morning at Big Bottle Bubbles, an event that still has tickets available.

Sailer Long said it isn't just bubbly that makes her happy, there are also some truly unique wine seminars to attend.

Populars ones on the list include Joseph Phelps Insignia Fabulous at 40 celebrating its 40th anniversary, Women Wine and the World's Treasures which promises attendees a chance to travel the world with America's best lady sommeliers, and then there is Robert Mondavi Winery Celebrating 50 Years of Excellence -- it is already sold out.

"They really went deep into the cellars," said Sailer Long.

Last but not least, rosés are getting a lot of buzz this year; it's a category that has seen double-digit growth, and Sailer Long said that is something to celebrate."I also love rosé, we are doing a great rosétasting with wines from all over the world: rosé from Oregon to Spain to France, some local, some from Monterey," she said.

Rosé Tinted Glasses the World of Pink Wines sold out fast and guests can expect everything from pale pinot noir saignées to classic grenache-based Provençal pinks.

Almost every event at PBFW will have some sort of wine focus, but there are 19 total wine-only events and as of Wednesday eight were sold out.

The festival is predicting a record number of pourings with the most attendees ever, and expected 8,500 people.